Look ahead of links/alter links

The present application is related to and claims the benefit of the earliest available effective filing date(s) from the following listed application(s) (the “Related Applications”) (e.g., claims earliest available priority dates for other than provisional patent applications or claims benefits under 35 USC §119(e) for provisional patent applications, for any and all parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, etc. applications of the Related Application(s)).

• • 1. For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of United States Patent Application entitled LOOK AHEAD OF LINKS/ALTER LINKS, naming Gary W. Flake William H. Gates, III; Roderick A. Hyde; Edward K. Y. Jung; Royce A. Levien; Robert W. Lord; Mark A. Malamud; Richard F. Rashid; John D. Rinaldo, Jr.; Clarence T. Tegreene; Charles Whitmer; and Lowell L. Wood, Jr. as inventors, filed 21 Dec. 2007, application Ser. No. 12/005,064, which is currently co-pending, or is an application of which a currently co-pending application is entitled to the benefit of the filing date.
  • 2. For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of United States Patent Application entitled LOOK AHEAD OF LINKS/ALTER LINKS, naming Gary W. Flake William H. Gates, III; Roderick A. Hyde; Edward K. Y. Jung; Royce A. Levien; Robert W. Lord; Mark A. Malamud; Richard F. Rashid; John D. Rinaldo, Jr.; Clarence T. Tegreene; Charles Whitmer; and Lowell L. Wood, Jr. as inventors, filed Dec. 27, 2007, Application Ser. No. 12/005,637, which is currently co-pending, or is an application of which a currently co-pending application is entitled to the benefit of the filing date.
  • 3. For purposes of the USPTO extra-statutory requirements, the present application constitutes a continuation-in-part of United States Patent Application entitled LOOK AHEAD OF LINKS/ALTER LINKS, naming Gary W. Flake William H. Gates, III; Roderick A. Hyde; Edward K. Y. Jung; Royce A. Levien; Robert W. Lord; Mark A. Malamud; Richard F. Rashid; John D. Rinaldo, Jr.; Clarence T. Tegreene; Charles Whitmer; and Lowell L. Wood, Jr. as inventors, filed Mar. 6, 2008, application Ser. No. 12/074,855, which is currently co-pending, or is an application of which a currently co-pending application is entitled to the benefit of the filing date.

The United States Patent Office (USPTO) has published a notice to the effect that the USPTO\'s computer programs require that patent applicants reference both a serial number and indicate whether an application is a continuation or continuation-in-part. Stephen G. Kunin, Benefit of Prior-Filed Application, USPTO Official Gazette Mar. 18, 2003, available at http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/sol/og/2003/week11/patbene.htm. The present Applicant has provided above a specific reference to the application(s) from which priority is being claimed as recited by statute. Applicant understands that the statute is unambiguous in its specific reference language and does not require either a serial number or any characterization, such as “continuation” or “continuation-in-part,” for claiming priority to U.S. patent applications. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Applicant understands that the USPTO\'s computer programs have certain data entry requirements, and hence Applicant is designating the present application as a continuation-in-part of its parent applications as set forth above, but expressly points out that such designations are not to be construed in any way as any type of commentary and/or admission as to whether or not the present application contains any new matter in addition to the matter of its parent application(s).

All subject matter of the Related Application and of any and all parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, etc. applications of the Related Applications is incorporated herein by reference to the extent such subject matter is not inconsistent herewith.

Web sites often contain links to other web sites enabling a user to navigate from one web site to another. Certain links may contain data that may compromise security and/or privacy. Certain links may contain data that a user may not desire to view.

A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: retrieving at least a portion of data from a data source; determining an acceptability of an effect of the retrieved at least a portion of the data at least in part via a virtual machine representation of at least a part of an end user\'s real machine having one or more end-user specified preferences; and providing at least one data display option to the end user\'s real machine based on the determining acceptability of the effect of the retrieved at least a portion of the data. In addition to the foregoing, other computationally implemented method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.

In one or more various aspects, related systems include but are not limited to circuitry and/or programming for effecting the herein-referenced method aspects; the circuitry and/or programming can be virtually any combination of hardware, software, and/or firmware configured to effect the herein- referenced method aspects depending upon the design choices of the system designer.